Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

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VARIOUS TROJAN ARTICLES.

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two horizontal lines on the neck, which are joined by small
cross lines, seem to denote armour. Marble idols without
the owl's face, but otherwise of exactly the same form as
those with the owl's face, are met with in numbers in all
the strata between 3 and 8 meters deep (io to 26 feet). I
likewise found long, thin copper nails with round heads at
the thick end, or without heads, but with the end bent round,
which I now perceive can only be breast or hair pins, and

No. 175. A Mould of Mica-schist, for casting various metal Instruments (Tower, 8 M.).

not actual nails for driving into wood. I find them also
in quantities in the strata of this excavation between 4
and 7 meters deep (13 to 23 feet), and I must therefore
decidedly pronounce that the people to whom these strata
of ruins belong were acquainted with copper.

A strange instrument of copper, almost in the shape of a

No. 176. A curious Instrument of Copper (3 M.). No. 177- A perforated and grooved piece

of Mica-schist, probablj for supporting a
Spit. Found on the Tower (8 M.).

horse's bit, but with two pointed hooks, was found at a depth